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Department of Economics

Department seminars

Second term, Jan - Apr 2026

The Departmental Seminar Coordinators are Colette Salemi, Tao Wang and Justin Wiltshire. 

Seminars are held in BEC 363 on Fridays from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., unless otherwise indicated (in bold).

Date Speaker Title Host
Jan 16 Russell Toth (University of Sydney)   Colette Salemi

Jan 23

 Michael Devereux (UBC)   Ke Xu
Jan 30 Arthur Sweetman (McMaster University)   Martin Farnham
Feb 06 Elizabeth Dhuey (University of Toronto)   Peter Kennedy / Janet Burlacu
Feb 13 Liam Kelly (UNBC)   David Scoones
Feb 20 Reading Break Reading Break Reading Break
Feb 27 Dinghai Xu (Waterloo University)   Ke Xu
Mar 06 Christopher Carpenter (Vanderbilt, College of Arts and Science)   Donn Feir
Mar 10

Marianne Page (UC Davis)

*Reid Elliot Lecture

  

Justin Wiltshire
Mar 13 Jeffrey Bloem (IFPRI)   Colette Salemi
Mar 20 Christopher Blattman (University of Chicago)   Colette Salemi
Mar 27 TBA   TBA
Apr 10

Marianne Page 

*Reid Elliot Lecture

   Justin Wiltshire

First term, Sep - Dec 2025

The Departmental Seminar Coordinators are Colette Salemi, Tao Wang and Justin Wiltshire. 

Seminars are held in BEC 363 on Fridays from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., unless otherwise indicated (in bold).

If you are interested in viewing a paper from one of our seminar speakers, please contact econdept@uvic.ca for a copy.

Date Speaker Title Host
Sep 05 TBA TBA TBA
Sep 12 Xiaozhou Zhou (University of Quebec at Montreal) TBA Ke Xu

Sep 17

*Wednesday

 Henrique Pita Barros (University of Lisbon) TBA Colette Salemi
Sep 19 Tae-Hwy Lee (University of California, Riverside) TBA Tao Wang
Sep 26

Phillip Oreopoulos (University of Toronto, Mississauga)

*Lansdowne Lecture

 TBA Justin Wiltshire
Oct 03 TBA TBA TBA
Oct 10 TBA TBA  
Oct 17 Elizabeth Lyons (University of California San Diego) TBA Gustavson Business School
Oct 24 Jonathon Proctor (University of British Columbia, Land and Food Systems) TBA Felix Pretis
Oct 31 TBA TBA TBA
Nov 07 Kourtney Kobel (University of Toronto) TBA

Peter Kenedy / Janet Burlacu
Nov 14 Bryan Leonard (University of Wyoming) TBA

Donn Feir
Nov 21 Reka Juhasz (University of British Columbia) TBA

Elisabeth Gugl
Nov 28 Godefroy Emmanuel Guindon (McMaster University) TBA

Chris Auld
Dec 05 Kevin Milligan (University of British Clumbia) TBA

Herb Schuetze

Second term, Jan - Apr 2025

The Departmental Seminar Coordinators are Colette Salemi, Tao Wang and Justin Wiltshire. 

Seminars are held in BEC 363 on Fridays from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., unless otherwise indicated (in bold).

Date Speaker Title Host
Jan 10 No speaker this week    
Jan 17 Alison Johnston (Oregon State University) Bent into Submission? Foreign Investors, Domestic Investors, and Populist Governments Paul Schure
Jan 24 No speaker this week    
Jan 31 No speaker this week    
Feb 07 Kevin Schepnel (Simon Fraser University) The Direct and Intergenerational Effects of Criminal History-Based Safety Net Bans in the U.S. Donn Feir
Feb 14 No speaker this week    
Feb 21 Reading Week    
Feb 28 Leonard Goff (University of Calgary) Measuring and Decomposing Bias: Theory and Evidence from Corruption Complaints in Peru (with Michael Best, Jonas Hjort, Dafne Murillo, and Gaston Pierri) Justin Wiltshire
Mar 07 Eric Protzer (Harvard Growth Lab) The Harvard Growth Lab and UVic Vasco Gabriel
Mar 14 Minjie Deng (Simon Fraser University) From Diaspora Dollars to Default Risk: Remittances and Sovereign Spreads  Ke Xu
Mar 21 Weixin Yao (UC Riverside) Semiparametric Partially Linear Varying Coefficient Modal Regression* Tao Wang
Mar 28 Martha Stinson (Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau) Tip of the Iceberg: Tip Reporting at U.S. Restaurants, 2005-2018 Justin Wiltshire
Apr 04

Giovanni Peri (UC Davis)

*Reid Elliott Lecture

 The Contribution of Foreign Master's Students to US Start-Ups Justin Wiltshire

First term, Sep - Dec 2024

The Departmental Seminar Coordinators are Colette Salemi, Tao Wang and Justin Wiltshire. 

Seminars are held in BEC 363 on Fridays from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., unless otherwise indicated (in bold).

If you are interested in viewing a paper from one of our seminar speakers, please contact econdept@uvic.ca for a copy.

Date Speaker Title Host
Sep 20 Amy Sun (Queens) Bank Loan Portfolio and Monetary Policy Ke Xu
Sep 27 Augustin Tapsoba (Toulouse School of Economics) Polygyny and the Economic Determinants of Family Formation in Sub-Saharan Africa Donn Feir

Oct 4

*Lansdowne

BEC 363

 Marianne Bitler (UC Davis) Long-Run Effects of Food Assistance: Evidence from the Food Stamp Program and Administrative Data Justin Wiltshire
Oct 11 Ian Luby (The Nature Conservancy) From Global Agreements to Local Action: The Role of Economics in Protecting the Planet Colette Salemi
Oct 18 Jing Tao (University of Washington) Post-Clustering Robust Inference Tao Wang
Oct 25 Witson Pena Tello (University of Barcelona) Policy Interactions and CO2 Emissions in the Electricity Generation Sector: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis Katya Rhodes / Colette Salemi
Nov 1 Carl McPherson How Magnetic Can Welfare Be? Justin Wiltshire
Nov 8 Nicholas Carollo (Federal Reserve Board) The Impact of Occupational Licensing on Earnings and Employment: Evidence from State Policy Changes Jason Hicks
Nov 15 Mahdi Shariati Feizabadi Sport Geoeconometric  
Nov 22 Siwei Wang (Hunan University, China) Quantile Prediction with Factor-augmented Regression: Structural Instability and Model Uncertainty Tao Wang